Chairman, Committee on Senate Services, Senator Sunday Karimi, has justified the purchase of SUVs for members of the National Assembly, saying due processes were followed before going for the vehicles.
Karimi who made this known while reacting to the issue said the department of procurement did a comparative analysis of the cost, durability and came up with suggestions which were adopted.
Karimi said, “Somebody that is a minister has more than three Land Cruisers, Prado and other vehicles and you are not asking them questions, why us?
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“These vehicles that you see, go to Nigerian roads today, If I go home once, my senatorial district, I come back spending a lot on my vehicles because our roads are bad.
“I said the decision that we took on using Land Cruiser is the cost and durability.”
He added, “Before they came up with this, it is not the decisions of the senators alone, we analysed arriving at Land Cruisers.
“It was based on a comparative analysis of the cost of technical issues and durability on Nigerian roads.
” We want something that we can maintain for another four years and the issue of buying vehicles from the National Assembly, you know it is a recurring issue, it occurs every assembly, it will always come up. “